Physical Education Learning Journeys & Key Concepts

Over the past 3 or 4 years my department in Jakarta has been working on developing an inquiry/concept based physical education matrix that fits over a preexisting national curriculum (Grades EY3-Grade 5).

The elusive PE matrix, it's something lots of people talk about, but very few people document.

With the knowledge that the Australian Curriculum (Health & Physical Education) underpins our conceptual matrix, here are our Learning Journeys and our Key Concepts.

If you have followed previous post, you will have noticed we have now gone from 5 Learning Journeys to 4, combining Relationships and Ethics together. The Learning Journeys are now: Relationships & Ethics, Elements or Movement, Health & Fitness and Evaluation & Critical Thinking. In addition we have tied each Learning Journey to their own set of concepts: Relationships, Safety, Values, Critical Thinking, Evaluation, Growth, Performance, Motivation and Wellness.

Some concepts do overlap Learning Journeys. When this happens we examine that particular concept through the lens of the Learning Journey we are studying at that moment in time.

Our Enduring Understandings (conceptual and transferable rather than topic based) and our Compelling Questions (provocation that captures the essence of the inquiry) will be discussed in the next post.